We keep busy.

We are passionate about our mission – and we’re excited to share all the great work we and our partners are doing to achieve it. Keep tabs on this space to stay up-to-date on the latest 100Kin10 happenings and announcements.

People are noticing.

We aren’t about tooting our own horn. But, we are dedicated to spreading the word about the great work of our partners and keeping STEM education front and center on the national stage. These media mentions feature 100Kin10 and our partners as we seek to provide all American classrooms with great STEM teachers.

Partners fuel this work.

100Kin10 partners use hard work, ingenuity, and a collaborative spirit to ensure that all students have access to the STEM learning that they—and our country—need and deserve. These stories are meant to give you an insider-look into how our partners use 100Kin10 to reach their above-and-beyond commitment and move the needle to overcome the big, system-level challenges that make this work so difficult.

We are making progress

Training 100,000 excellent STEM teachers in 10 years and making progress on the reasons for the persistent STEM teacher shortage is an audacious goal. With our bird’s-eye-view as the hub of the network working to achieve it, we have a unique opportunity to discern and amplify key trends in STEM education. Those insights, and updates on progress of the network as a whole, are all collected here.

The University of Texas at Austin Charles A. Dana Center features a piece on how 100Kin10’s organized approach and ability to bring together thought leaders from around the country is key to improving STEM teaching and learning.

San Diego Uptown News features a piece on hundreds of education leaders, STEM professionals and teachers gathered at the San Diego Zoo to discuss the STEM teacher shortage and other issues in the field.

All year long, we listen, collect information, and connect the dots. For the third year in a row, we’re taking a step back to reflect on what we’ve seen and share our insights with you, to help advance our shared efforts.

Education Week Teacher features a piece that attempts to pinpoint the factors that hinder supportive work environments for educators, and offers a roadmap toward creating a stronger professional culture.

Our new report “Teachers at Work: Designing Schools Where Teachers and Students Thrive”, lays the groundwork for diverse, coordinated, and mutually reinforcing efforts to improve school work environments.

All year long, we listen, collect information, and connect the dots. For the second year in a row, we’re taking a step back to reflect on what we’ve seen and share our insights with you, to help advance our shared efforts.

As the school year kicked off, we held a listening session with the 100Kin10 Teacher Forum to better understand teacher members’ experiences with how schools value and prioritize STEM and what’s on their minds as they head back into the classroom.

During a 100Kin10 Teacher Forum listening session, we asked teachers to share their experiences with school environments, systems, and schedules that enable innovative instruction and teacher collaboration. This is what we heard.

100Kin10 releases the result of over two years of crowd-sourced research and analysis to understand the impediments to getting and keeping great teachers, especially in STEM, that America has faced for decades.

Together with partners, sector leaders, STEM teachers, and other stakeholders, 100Kin10 is mapping the waterfront of the big, system-level challenges that make getting excellent STEM teachers into all classrooms so difficult.

Social change is messy. The path is rarely linear. The inherent ups and downs, successes and failures, learning moments and frustrations together comprise the larger narrative. At 100Kin10, we are no strangers to this ebb and flow.

Talia Milgrom-Elcott, Executive Director and Co-founder of 100Kin10, and Blair Blackwell, Manager of Education and Corporate Programs for Chevron, co-authored an op-ed highlighting three areas as key to making things better for STEM teachers.